FET Proactive

FET Proactive helps new research communities to be developed by encouraging researchers from different disciplines to work together on new technologies in specific domains.

In addition to research, FET Practive activities also include:

generating a research roadmap for the area,

developing appropriate educational materials, and

disseminating results to raise the general awareness of the new technology benefits.

In the Work Programme 2016-2017, FET Proactive consists of 3 initiatives under the topic "Boosting emerging technologies" and 3 initiatives under the topic "High Performance Computing" (HPC), implementing part of the European HPC strategy.

Emerging Themes and Communities

The aim is to mature four novel areas and themes by working towards structuring emerging communities and supporting the design and development of transformative research themes.

Area 1: Future technologies for societal change

Being human in a technological world

New science for a globalised world

Area 2: Biotech for better life

Intra- and inter-cell bio-technologies

Bio-electronic medicines and therapies

Cognitive neuro-technologies

Area 3: Disruptive information technologies

New computing paradigms and their technologies

Quantum engineering

Hybrid opto-electro-mechanical devices at the nano-scale

Area 4: New technologies for energy and functional materials

Ecosystem engineering

Complex bottom-up construction

ERANET Cofund

The challenge is to support the maturation of novel research topics and structuration of the corresponding communities in the FET domain, in complementarity and synergy with the FET actions directly funded by the Commission, and while fostering cross-fertilisation and synergies between the supported topics and communities.

ERANET Cofund in Quantum Technologies

Research on quantum technologies in Europe is currently funded through several targeted initiatives at European, national and regional level. The aim is to foster synergy between these initiatives in the area of quantum technologies in order to create collaborations among the best groups in Europe and fostering broader partnerships around them to spread excellence and to broaden the European footprint of this emerging technology area.

High-Performance Computing

HPC aims at the next steps for leveraging the existing European strengths for building the next generation of extreme performance computing and taking advantage of the new opportunities created from the transition from peta to exascale computing. The ultimate goal is to achieve world-class extreme scale computing capabilities in platforms, technologies and applications.